Office of the Historian

862.85/966

The Acting Secretary of State to the British Ambassador (Geddes)

Washington, December 26, 1919.

Excellency: Referring to your note of December 19, 1919, in regard to former German vessels which the British Government desires to have delivered to the British authorities, I have the honor to inform you that I am now advised by the competent authorities of this Government that the steamships Graf Waldersee, Zeppelin, Pretoria, Cap Finisterre, Mobile, Prinz Friederich Wilhelm, and [Page 579] Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, now in the harbor of New York, will be delivered to the representative of your Government as soon as the proper person is designated to receive them.69

Accept [etc.]

Frank L. Polk
  1. For the British claim arising out of the detention of these vessels and of the Imperator, See p. 648.↩